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Road to Makkah: Welcome pilgrims
The Makkah Road Initiative does not stop at this point; it is an integrated service from the moment any person decides to perform Haj and the visa is issued, and the health requirements of the pilgrim are checked.
SnapChat doctor violates patient’s confidentiality
What was presented in the video was against the ethics of the medical profession and a cheap shot by the doctor in an attempt to gain followers. A successful doctor can be popular and make a name for herself with ...
Three lies about women’s rights
The second lie is that a Saudi woman cannot get an education without her guardian’s permission. This has never happened in the management system of educational institutions. Many people have studied, and graduated from university without a male guardian’s permission.
The child and the smoking crime
ABOUT five months ago I was in Jeddah sitting at a coffee shop in the hotel where I was staying. A family was sitting next me. They had a child who was five or six years old. They offered him ...
Why do some Muslims support Daesh?
Samar Al-Miqrin Al-Jazirah There is no doubt that Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) belongs to the Iranian regime and helps Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Whoever has doubts about this should think again, especially following the speech delivered by Syria’s Mufti in which he threatened ...
When will we admit that violence against women is a problem in Saudi society?
Samar Al-Miqrin The whole world celebrated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. Our neighbor, Kuwait, prepared well for the event; universities and various civil institutions organized campaigns with the help of female college students ...
Why do students leave school without basic educational skills?
  Samar Al-Miqrin Al Jazeera     Al-Jazirah newspaper published an article last week about how the illiteracy rate in the Kingdom has decreased to 3.75 percent among Saudi men and 9.92 percent among Saudi women. These figures were given by Abdulrahman Al-Barrak, an undersecretary ...
SIM cards are being sold without the need for an iqama
Samar Al-Miqrin Al-Jazirah I went to the market in Riyadh to buy a pre-paid SIM card for a domestic worker and showed my ID to the clerk. “It’s not needed,” he said. I asked: “Didn’t the Communications and Information Technology Commission issue ...
Why do drivers in Saudi Arabia honk their horns unnecessarily?
Samar Al-Miqrin Al Jazirah One may be able to put up with the sound of a honking horn in any place, save near a hospital. Unfortunately, many drivers honk horns near hospitals in complete disregard of the needs of patients for quiet. Ten ...
Al-Nahda’s forward-looking female activists
Samar Al-Miqrin Al-Jazirah Anyone writing the history of Saudi women has to dedicate a large part of that history to the achievements of the Al-Nahda Philanthropic Society for Women, which was established in 1962, the year when girls were allowed to ...
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